Welsh convert to Islam Belinda Khan killed in Pakistan blast

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A British woman who converted to Islam and moved to Pakistan to be with her husband was killed by a suicide bomber on Monday.

Belinda Khan, a former community care worker from Porth, Rhondda, in South Wales, died when a blast ripped through a busy market in Mingora, the main city in the Swat Valley.

The bomb was detonated at a junction near shops and stalls as vehicles carrying members of Pakistan’s security forces passed. Two soldiers were among the 37 injured. Up to 13 were killed. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that Mrs Khan was among the dead